Andy Serkis Quotes
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Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.
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Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.
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Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.
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Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.
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I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!
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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
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People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.
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A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.
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I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.
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An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.
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The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
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When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
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I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.
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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
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I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
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If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.
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There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
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I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.
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Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.
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I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
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I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.
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I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.